Basketball scheduling

[Kal]

First off...I don't claim to be as informed as you guy's are regarding the pertinent didactics which cause or fail to cause a basketball program to be successful! You fellas are truly bonafide sports guru's and I love reading your post!

IMO...as a person who simply loves the game of college basketball, it seems to me that playing "top notch" out of conference basketball teams is totally viable and should always be considered. Playing teams with incredible basketball tradition and manned with elite talent like Duke, Tennessee, LSU, and Kansas will always be a "win-win" situation! Whether we win or lose, the benefits of playing such teams provides way too many positives to discount; such as, affirmative exposure, great pay-outs, and team pride which usually manifest from being associated with such prominent fan based schools. Don't forget that most kids coming out of high school want to be associated with top-notch conferences...so if they can't play for them because of their own personal lack of fortune or virtue...the next best thing is playing on a team that competes against these highly publicized and desirable conferences. As always, this will be a great recruiting tool...as there will always be more athletes who are "not" blessed with the innate, elites type physical attributes necessary to be recruited and ultimately signed by the aforementioned programs.

I think our main concern should be dominating and establishing a winning hierarchy in our own conference...whether our RPI is optimum or not...with success in our conference, good things are sure to follow for our program!

LSU hasn't wanted to play us in basketball for the past few years for one reason. We could beat them. In fact I think the only reason we got into their tourney last year or the year before (can't remember right off hand) was due to the fact that one of the teams dropped out and we were a last minute replacement. But I'm sure they'd be willing to play us after the season we had this year.

[DestinCajun]

I might be missing something, but don't these teams have to be willing to put you on their schedules on a given year. I mean you have a problem with Tennesee, Nevada and several others? I guess I don't think you can always get the schedule you or the coaches might want for lots of reasons.

We had as good a home schedule in 2006-2007 as it will ever get. Too bad we didn't have the 2004-2005 team to go with it.

If the current squad improves over the next couple of years the way most of us project it will, I don't look for many good programs to be knocking the door down to play us in the Cajundome.

[Cajun Express]

LSU hasn't wanted to play us in basketball for the past few years for one reason. We could beat them.

You can't mean basketball, they have played us several times in Jesse and Lee era and handled us very easily imo.

[evangelinetiger]

LSU hasn't wanted to play us in basketball for the past few years for one reason. We could beat them. In fact I think the only reason we got into their tourney last year or the year before (can't remember right off hand) was due to the fact that one of the teams dropped out and we were a last minute replacement. But I'm sure they'd be willing to play us after the season we had this year.

I am surprised that it took this long for a cajunfan to lay out a lie.
LSU played the peppers in BR last year and won by 20 points.

Look, the ULL program has made the tournment about 4 times in the last 15 yrs and never made it past the second round. YOUR PROGRAM SUCKS. The Sun belt is so bad that this yrs LSU team would run the conference.

LSU has been to 5 Final Fours and has three players about the 50 greatest basketball players ever.

ULL has no one of note. Never made it past the sweet 16, which it went to once over 30 yrs ago. UL SUCKS.

STOP MAKING UP LIES about your school's ability to compete with LSU.

Worry about the 39% graduation rate.

[Kal]

ULL has no one of note. Never made it past the sweet 16, which it went to once over 30 yrs ago. UL gets under my skin.

STOP MAKING UP LIES about your school's ability to compete with LSU.

Then please by all means, don't come back to this board. What are you anyway? The self appointed LSU public defender? Do they pay you to come out and perform damage control? Get a life. You love LSU so much and the truth about it is...They couldn't care less if you are a fan or not. You are actually less than a number to them. So good luck in all your public defending endeavors for the school who doesn't care if you exist at all. They've got plenty more fans.

[Kal]

You can't mean basketball, they have played us several times in Jesse and Lee era and handled us very easily imo.

Actually I think we've only played them once in the past 5 years. Maybe twice. They may have handled us easily, but the reality was that they were nervous when they scheduled us. No one wants to lose to the school that you are supposed to beat, especially when you've done so much to see to it that they never reach your level.

[rhineaux]

I am surprised that it took this long for a cajunfan to lay out a lie.
LSU played UL in BR last year and won by 20 points.

Look, the UL program has made the tournment about 4 times in the last 15 yrs and never made it past the second round. YOUR PROGRAM SUCKS. The Sun belt is so bad that this yrs LSU team would run the conference.

LSU has been to 5 Final Fours and has three players about the 50 greatest basketball players ever.

ULL has no one of note. Never made it past the sweet 16, which it went to once over 30 yrs ago. UL SUCKS.

STOP MAKING UP LIES about your school's ability to compete with LSU.

Worry about the 39% graduation rate.

*How many times has LSU made the tournament in the last 15 years? 6. UL? 5. I am impressed by your college's ability to dominate the sport. And nice job of taking advantage of that 6th seed a couple years ago against UAB. well done.

*Before you worry about LSU running the sun Belt, why don't you worry about NOT coming in last in your own conference.

*"LSU has been to 5 Final Fours and has three players about the 50 greatest basketball players ever. " I think you are missing a couple prepositions or adverbs or something in this sentence. And come on, you aren't really counting that fluke last year are you? 8 games under .500 in your conference the year following a final four appearance? you got to give that one back.

*I am unsure why you always bring up graduation rates? Explain to me why you are so worried about the graduation rates. so what if lsu's graduation rates are higher, it's still a tier 3 school. all that means is that even if you're the hottest piece of ____ on the block, you're still a piece of ____.

[evangelinetiger]

*How many times has LSU made the tournament in the last 15 years? 6. UL? 5. I am impressed by your college's ability to dominate the sport. And nice job of taking advantage of that 6th seed a couple years ago against UAB. well done.

*Before you worry about LSU running the sun Belt, why don't you worry about NOT coming in last in your own conference.

*"LSU has been to 5 Final Fours and has three players about the 50 greatest basketball players ever. " I think you are missing a couple prepositions or adverbs or something in this sentence. And come on, you aren't really counting that fluke last year are you? 8 games under .500 in your conference the year following a final four appearance? you got to give that one back.

*I am unsure why you always bring up graduation rates? Explain to me why you are so worried about the graduation rates. so what if lsu's graduation rates are higher, it's still a tier 3 school. all that means is that even if you're the hottest piece of ____ on the block, you're still a piece of ____.

Look, LSU has winning record against the peppers in every major, except maybe softball. LSU is not scared to play ULL in anyting b/c it constantly wins.

LSU had the number 2 pick in the draft last yr, beat Duke, beat TX AM, and beat TX to make it to the final four. That alone is more than ULLL has achieved if one adds all of its athletic accomplishments together.

I would bet my student loan balance that LSU would dominate the belt this yr. The Skunk belt is joke and the fact that you losers constantly to tout it as anything but is pathetic.

If is LSU just a piece of crap, then ULLL is a giant pile of crap b/c is certainly a lot better than ULL.

ULL actually loses more students than it gradautes, where is the accountibility at that school?

[AstroCajun]

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*I am unsure why you always bring up graduation rates? Explain to me why you are so worried about the graduation rates. so what if lsu's graduation rates are higher, it's still a tier 3 school. all that means is that even if you're the hottest piece of ____ on the block, you're still a piece of ____.

Why do I get the feeling that ET is going to end up wearing a straightjacket in a padded cell?

His obsession with us is borderline stalker-ish. Trolling the boards, looking for the stray poster that allows him to yell "liar, liar, pants on fire."

It must make him feel better about himself. Ya'know. Therapy. He needs lots of it.

Don't mock him. Pity him.

Pity him for not being able to enjoy his own programs success, when they have them.

Pity him for always looking over his shoulder at what we are doing. Even though we'll "never" be his equal.

Pity him for not understanding that we would never wish to trade places with him.

Pity him because we sure don't envy him.

[rhineaux]

Look, LSU has winning record against UL in every major, except maybe softball. LSU is not scared to play UL in anyting b/c it constantly wins.

LSU had the number 2 pick in the draft last yr, beat Duke, beat TX AM, and beat TX to make it to the final four. That alone is more than ULL has achieved if one adds all of its athletic accomplishments together.

I would bet my student loan balance that LSU would dominate the belt this yr. The Skunk belt is joke and the fact that you losers constantly to tout it as anything but is pathetic.

If is LSU just a piece of crap, then ULL is a giant pile of crap b/c is certainly a lot better than UL.

ULL actually loses more students than it gradautes, where is the accountibility at that school?

How do you suggest that UL be more accountable for students leaving? what would you do to change it if you ran this joint?

I am not sure what your problem with UL is. Your constant cries of UL's pathetic existance makes me wonder why you even bother. If we are so small, then i am curious why you care. Who cares if UL fans are UL fans and why do you think that it is your job to "keep us in check"? And your thoughts that UL is a bigger pile of crap because LSU is better is in large part an opinion. When people here say that LSU sucks, its for several reasons. for example, ________ fans like you who give that school such a bad name. I could go on but that's not the point.

the point is that you are critical of a public school. you are critical of an entity that is controlled by a larger entity, which controls everything the school does. The school doesn't control how much money it recieves, it doesn't control how high it can set its admitting standards, it doesn't control how high it can set tuition, it doesn't control any major decision that is made. (and don't give me crap about us not being treated fairly and we don't desreve it or whatever, because every other school in the state is penalized in the same fashion, all for the benefit of one school).

And the biggest thing that gets me is that all of this criticism is from an lsu "alum". You made a choice to go to lsu, and i'd be willing to bet that choice was made before ANY admissions requirements were created. So your going to that school doesn't entitle you to anything special, and it sure doesn't entitle you to the right to criticize people who went to or are fans of another school, although you think it does. You didn't graduate from Harvard, nor were you subjected to some sort of intense mental or physical training. You said, I think i'll go there.

[Kal]

Look, LSU has winning record against UL in every major, except maybe softball. LSU is not scared to play UL in anyting b/c it constantly wins.

LSU had the number 2 pick in the draft last yr, beat Duke, beat TX AM, and beat TX to make it to the final four. That alone is more than ULL has achieved if one adds all of its athletic accomplishments together.

I would bet my student loan balance that LSU would dominate the belt this yr. The Skunk belt is joke and the fact that you losers constantly to tout it as anything but is pathetic.

If is LSU just a piece of crap, then ULL is a giant pile of crap b/c is certainly a lot better than UL.

ULL actually loses more students than it gradautes, where is the accountibility at that school?

Wow! You have student loans? Are you really old enough to be in college? Because from the maturity level of your posts, I'd say you are around 4 years old.

[RaginEsquire06]

all that means is that even if you're the hottest piece of ____ on the block, you're still a piece of ____.